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49350 Saint-Georges-des-Sept-Voies, Maine-et-Loire, 35 km SE of Angers, France, Tel: +33-2-41-57-95-92
"In 1987, Warminski purchased an entire French troglodytic village that had been deserted by its inhabitants. The village has now been transformed into his Terrestrial Helix. Beneath the temple-like Amphi-Sculpture of swirling sculptural forms, the main caves, including over a kilometre of his own excavation, are approached by a spiralling slope leading to a dark passage that links a series of galleries. At the centre of the underground network is a cavity dominated by a large smooth sphere. The carved walls of the tunnels and caves match the convex forms created in the external landscape. Visitors explore the inside of the sculptures that they see on the surface and thus experience the unity of inner and outer worlds."
"Fantasy Worlds" by Deidi Von Schaewen and John Maizels, 1999,
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